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Cosmos, with Neil DeGrasse Tyson - In which we learn that FOX is not the same as Fox News

If Ann Druyan waxes abloo abloo about shit anywhere in the show, it gets a chop.

I mostly like Tyson and how he's a more modern Bill Nye, but at the same time I'm concerned this series might do stuff that will become dated by mining memes or stupid stuff like using nyan cat to re-imagine relativity:

The fact that we still have thousands of nuclear weapons and maintenance and operation of those weapons haven't really been kept up that well is as troubling as the tensions during the Cold War. The chances of accidents involving nuclear has always been a pretty big concern. It's just that people don't pay as much attention to it today.

And I wonder if Ben Kingsley based on his performance as the Mandarin on Sagan. The speech pattern and voice are similar.

The fact that we still have thousands of nuclear weapons and maintenance and operation of those weapons haven't really been kept up that well is as troubling as the tensions during the Cold War. The chances of accidents involving nuclear has always been a pretty big concern. It's just that people don't pay as much attention to it today.

And I wonder if Ben Kingsley based on his performance as the Mandarin on Sagan. The speech pattern and voice are similar.

I would definitely say that Hugo Weaving must have been influenced by Sagan for his portrayal of Agent Smith. Someone even mashed up that one Matrix scene with Sagan from Cosmos:

Actually, some of the most frightening incidents had nothing to do with the weapons themselves but equipment problems/failure in the early warning system. For example, in 1961, all communication between SAC and NORAD went down due to equipment failure, which no one thought was possible due to redundancies built into the system. But it turns out that the communication circuits ran through a relay station without any redundancies.

Also, there have been some pretty troubling incidents involving nuclear launch officers. Recently there was the whole drug scandal involve nuclear launch officers. There have also been issues concerning the mental health of those officers.

I don't know what needs to be spoilered because it's history, but it was a good first episode.

+Strong opening and visual showoff
-mediocre middle with really weak animation for the Bruno part, which is a shame since McFarlane's got some good animators at his disposal
+loved the calendar
+the personal touch at the end with Sagan/Tyson relationship was very heartwarming (but dude stop using your middle name to be Canadian TV show hipster, Neil Tyson was good enough for Sagan, good enough for you)
-the very weak, almost forced, little dig about coal power
+great music
-fuck all these commercials, I'd rather wait and watch it the next day and skip them. Especially the first episode do limited commercials.

I certainly enjoyed, bit bummed that my schedule caused me to miss the first 157ish minutes of the premier. Damn shame that commercials are so fucking obnoxious these days and I think this would be so much more enjoyable without them.